How does something like this happen? Obviously, the Vine says it all, yet it also completely glosses over the most amazing part. How did an idea like this even pop into somebody’s head?

Nothing we’re ever taught on a soccer field says something like this should be possible. There’s no way an attempt like this could even be dangerous. Had Arjen Robben tried it, he would have blown out his pelvis. This shit’s not supposed to work.

Then again, that’s what separates players like Erik Lamela from people like us. It’s cliché to say, but in the face of this goal — surely one of the best we’ve seen in years — it’s still true: Where was see limits, talents like Lamela see potential.

It’s ridiculous. It’s arrogant. It’d be shameful and selfish if it was at all explicable. But we can’t denounce these goals any more than we can explain them. We’re completely ignorant when it comes to this level of performance.

How did Lamela score this goal? Not how did he kick the ball, guide it toward goal, and beat the keeper. Before that. How did he even imagine this goal? How did he believe that this shit would actually work?